Calibration idea

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This idea would go well inside Dmitry's calibration tool or Alex's tool, but anyone else could use it as well:

Tapping on a bunch of points to calibrate can get old quickly, no matter what sort of crosshairs you use as the screen targets.

However, I just got another idea for a calibration interface:
press down on the screen, and have a target (like Dmitry's animated target) appear where the digitizer thinks the stylus has tapped. Then tap in the real center of the target.

This can be extended by dragging the stylus over the digitizer; every time the stylus is lifted and tapped back down, those two sets of coordinates should be used as part of the recalibration.

This is a more complex method than calibrating against known points on the screen, but if someone could come up with an algorithm for it, I think this method would work really well. Each tap set would recalibrate the screen, and a person could just keep on tapping and dragging until they knew their screen was calibrated the way they wanted it. Of course, you'd need at least 5 tap sets for the first calibration.

[Church Punk]

nice idea, although i think the tap n drag option was already out there :) rly, which app? HandyAid

The calibration of this little app does the callibration this way:
-Shows a cross in the top left of the screen and a text saying "Tap and drag your stylus to the target"
-Same procedure just that now in the low right corner of the screen
-Same just that now on the center.

While HandyAid just lets you calibrate 320x320 (like the buggy builtin does...) you can do a trick with some DAs from Pruss pulling down the DIA (toggle status bar first, then the DIA DA). Doing this you will be able to callibrate with using the part of the DIA (not the status bar). This is VERY accurate on my TX and helped me when i had the growing deadspot and now with my new Glass digi (never tried PowerDigi, and MySkin callibration wasnt that good for my TX). You also have the option of having a fullscreen callibration with the statusbar space by pulling it down, but my TX has a very accurate callibration with the statusbar up :)

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ah; I missed the "drag" instruction in Handyaid.